Are we having fun yet?

Each year we take a road trip to explore places on our “I’ve always wanted to see it” list. We’re campers. You know, the kind where you sleep in a sleeping bag in a tent on the cold, hard ground. One of our more memorable trip was to Crater Lake.

On our first night on the road we went to set up the tent and found it impossible to do. It seemed we (aka he) didn’t pack the poles. How do you do that? Or how do you not do that?

I look for the silver lining in situations like this; even if I wasn’t going to find it on the inside of our tent. We spent the first night in our sleeping bags with binoculars trained at the night sky (see there IS a benefit to not sleeping in a tent).

The next day we went to every outdoor store in Bend, Oregon looking for tent poles. Apparently they don’t make universal tent poles. Dang. We couldn’t bring ourselves to buy another tent because ours was brand new. Besides, it wasn’t so bad.

Our next stop was Crater Lake. Once again we spread out our sleeping bags and again enjoyed the night sky.

Crater Lake

The next morning was a different story. We experienced one of the perils of not sleeping in a tent... it was FREEZING! We jumped out of our sleeping bags and threw them in the car. We couldn’t turn the car on fast enough.

Our SUV is equipped with a thermometer and to our shock it read 34 degrees! Yikes! My husband made his best decision of the trip…..we headed into the lodge for a hot breakfast. I think we have a camper in our future.